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Biodiversity Informatics
H-index 9

Biodiversity Informatics

1546-9735

Published by: Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum

https://journals.ku.edu/jbi/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 401 39 17 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 41
Documents by Best Scientists*: 18
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 5.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Biodiversity Informatics?

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Biodiversity, World Wide Web, Data science, Ecology and Environmental niche modelling. It explores Biodiversity concepts, specifically Biodiversity informatics and Global biodiversity but expands to research in Data quality and Data records. The research topics discussed in the journal include Biodiversity informatics as well as Informatics.

Metadata research are fields of study within World Wide Web but they also intertwine with concepts in Natural history, Global strategy and Action plan. Research on Metadata addressed in it frequently intersections with the field of RDF. The tackled Data science research is interrelated with Database which concerns subjects like Web service.

Taxon and Species distribution are all disciplines of Ecology that connect with topics in Variable (computer science). The Environmental niche modelling study featured falls within the wider field of Ecological niche. Ecological niche research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Global warming and Ecology (disciplines).

  • Biodiversity (27.91%)
  • World Wide Web (19.77%)
  • Data science (18.60%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • INTERPRETATION OF MODELS OF FUNDAMENTAL ECOLOGICAL NICHES AND SPECIES' DISTRIBUTIONAL AREAS (1229 citations)
  • Uses and requirements of ecological niche models and related distributional models (314 citations)
  • Climate Change and Biodiversity: Some Considerations in Forecasting Shifts in Species' Potential Distributions (109 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Biodiversity Informatics:

The most cited articles aim to foster the development of research in Ecological niche, Environmental niche modelling, Biodiversity, Ecology and Data science. The published articles in Global biodiversity and Biodiversity informatics fall within the purview of Biodiversity but it also intertwines with topics in Data quality. The published papers facilitate discussions in Ecology (disciplines) and Geographic distribution as part of the larger field of Ecology, however, they also tackle fields such as Transferability, Structure (mathematical logic) and Systematics.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Statistics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Species richness, Presence absence, Similarity (network science), Evolutionary biology and Curculionidae. Biodiversity Informatics facilitates the exploration of Curculionidae in relation to the other disciplines, such as Open source, Big data mining, Multi species, Inference and Bark beetle. Biodiversity Informatics held discussions to help close the divide between two different fields of study: Open source and Agroforestry.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Predicting multi-species bark beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) occurrence in Alaska: First use of open access big data mining and open source GIS to provide robust inference and a role model for progress in forest conservation (1 citations)
  • GLOBAL LAND-USE AND LAND-COVER DATA FOR ECOLOGISTS: HISTORICAL, CURRENT AND FUTURE SCENARIOS (0 citations)
  • Visualizing species richness and site similarity from presence-absence matrices (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Biodiversity Informatics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • A. Townsend Peterson (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Vishwas Chavan (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Arturo H. Ariño (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Luis Osorio-Olvera (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jorge Soberón (4 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Biodiversity Informatics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Kansas (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Navarra (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • American Museum of Natural History (4 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National Autonomous University of Mexico (3 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Presence-only and presence-absence data for comparing species distribution modeling methods

    Jane Elith;Catherine H. Graham;Roozbeh Valavi;Meinrad Abegg

    (2020)
    81 Citations
  • The Abundant Niche-centroid Hypothesis: Key Points About Unfilled Niches and the Potential Use of Supraspecfic Modeling Units

    Carlos Yañez;Gerardo Martín;Luis Osorio-Olvera;Jazmín Escobar-Luján

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • Co-occurrence Networks do not Support Identification of Biotic Interactions

    A. Townsend Peterson;Jorge Soberón;Janine Ramsey;Luis Osorio-Olvera

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species' Niches and Distributions

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Some thoughts about the challenge of inferring ecological interactions from spatial data.

    Robert D. Holt

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Predicting multi-species bark beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) occurrence in Alaska: First use of open access big data mining and open source GIS to provide robust inference and a role model for progress in forest conservation

    Khodabakhsh Zabihi;Falk Huettmann;Brian Young

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Biodiversity and distribution of Isopoda and Polychaeta along the Northwestern Pacific and the Arctic Ocean

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Weighing the Evidence for the Abundant-Center Hypothesis

    Tad A. Dallas;Luca Santini;Robin Decker;Alan Hastings

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Can Ecological Interactions be Inferred from Spatial Data

    Christopher Rhodes Stephens;Constantino Gonzalez-Salazar;Maricarmen Villalobos;Pablo Marquet

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Biodiversity Informatics for Public Policy. The case of CONABIO in Mexico

    (2022)
    9 Citations

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